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Spoilers Star Trek: Prodigy and the Novels
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Regardless, since children are the show's target audience, it makes sense the novels based on the show would be aimed at children, no?
It's hardly unprecedented for Trek to have tie-ins aimed at kids. Mission to Horatius, the Gold Key comics, the William Rotsler Star Trek Short Stories books in the '80s, the various choose-your-adventure books over the years (I still remember being creeped out by the one that addressed the reader as "Chris," as if it knew my name), the '90s Academy and Jake/Nog YA books, the Kelvin Academy YA books, now this. Not to mention the nonfiction books like The Monsters of Star Trek and that one with the cardboard punch-outs, and a bunch of recent books aimed at young kids.
On 15 December 2022, Prodigy 1.18 at long last brought Kathryn Janeway's sister's name 'Phoebe' from Mosaic into canon!
If it's written off, they won't be able to do any further licensing. It'll be a buried property.
Have any Prodigy references snuck into the meagre Treklit of the past few years? Cos that's all we're gonna get. Or maybe a few subtle ones in the future that get past editors, like the ST'09 references we got before they were finally properly allowed.
The ongoing Star Trek Comic series certainly has. Unsure about books.
So PRO characters won't even be able to turn up in other series?
FUCKING LAWYERS
It's been removed from Paramount+, but season 1 can still be purchased on Amazon Prime Video, and its first half is available on Google Play and other services: https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-prodigy-paramount-plus-where-to-watch-buy-1850577267
And they have said they're going to complete post-production on season 2 and market the show to other providers. So this is not a Batgirl situation where the whole thing is being suppressed forever. If it were, they wouldn't bother to finish season 2.
Ughhh... if they manage that, it would ensure that Harry Kim (one of the characters tethered to PRO) really will be the Forever Ensign.
Huh? Why would Harry be "tethered to PRO"? There was no mention of him in the series and no reason to assume that he'd still be associated with Janeway or Chakotay after Voyager got home.
Where are you getting this idea from? You're the only person I've seen suggest it, and it doesn't even make sense. How can they write the show off as an unfinished, abandoned production after it's been released?
"Oh, we spent umpity-ump million dollars on Star Trek: Prodigy, but that was totally unworkable and we had to pull the plug, we never released it or made a dime back. Tax deduction, please."
"What about these DVDs of the show you've been selling?"
"Oh, those aren't DVDs, those are commemorative coasters we were giving out to the production crew, there was stock-keeping error that led to them being packaged and distributed as if they were DVDs, but they aren't."
At worst, season two could end up like those unfinished episodes of Clone Wars, but the characters and concepts in them weren't off-limits to Lucasfilm, and the storylines were eventually commercially released in other media.
It's in reference to a comment Garrett Wang recently made saying Harry was not allowed to show up in Season 3 of Picard because "Prodigy has plans for the character." Guess that should be "had plans" now.
Well, unless another service or network picks up the show and orders a third season. How many times has Futurama been revived now, on how many different outlets?
Harry Kim may well be in S2 of Prodigy, which is being finished and will presumably be broadcast/streamed by someone.
This does happen occasionally, but it's still very much the exception, rather than the rule.
Hopefully Prodigy will be one of those exception cases, though.
Star Trek was a 1960s sci-fi series that got cancelled after three seasons and didn't reach the syndication "magic number" of 100 episodes, yet it got revived over and over and became one of the most successful screen franchises in television and film history. It has always been an exception to the rule.
It appears the whole first season can be purchased but only the first half can be watched.
Vudu is also selling those ~9 watchable episodes but calling it 'season one'.
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